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Lagos, Nigeria, March 20, 2015--A Nigerian journalist told the Committee to Protect Journalists he received threats on Sunday and reported them to the police but had been rebuffed. CPJ condemns the threats and calls on Nigerian authorities to ensure the journalist's safety.

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Abuja, Nigeria, August 22, 2014--Nigerian authorities should stop harassing the independent newspaper the Daily Trust and allow its journalists to cover the news freely, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

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Nigerian authorities have been waging widespread attacks on nearly a dozen independent newspapers under the cover of fighting terrorism. By last weekend, no fewer than 10 newspapers had their operations nationwide disrupted, leading to the loss of hundreds of thousands of newspaper sales.

New York, June 6, 2014--The Nigerian military this morning
confiscated or destroyed copies of at least four leading newspapers, Punch, Leadership,Vanguard, and
TheNation, around the country, according to news
reports. A defense official claimed that authorities were looking for "materials
with grave security implications," the reports
said.

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Abuja, Nigeria, December
26, 2012--Nigerian authorities must immediately release two journalists who have
been detained since Monday and allow a third journalist who has fled into
hiding to return to his home and work freely, the Committee to Protect
Journalists said today.

In pre-dawn raids on
Monday, about 40 armed security agents arrested Aliyu Saleh, a reporter with Al-Mizan, a weekly Hausa-language
newspaper, and Musa Muhammad Awwal, the paper's editor, at their homes in
Rigasa in the northern state of Kaduna, according to news reports. The agents also confiscated the
journalists' phones and money and briefly
detained the journalists' wives, news reports said.

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A
radical militant Islamist group released an 18-minute video on May 1, 2012, that
threatened attacks on at least 14 local and international news outlets,
according to news reports. In the video, Boko Haram, a group seeking the
imposition of Sharia law in northern Nigeria, accused the outlets of biased
reporting and crimes against Islam and also claimed responsibility for prior
attacks on newspapers, news reports said.